Report of the State Irrigation Commissioner to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture |
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... APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES . To carry on the work of the department the following sums were ap- propriated ... appropriations were made in a lump sum for the expenses of the department , but besides fixing the salary of the ...
... APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES . To carry on the work of the department the following sums were ap- propriated ... appropriations were made in a lump sum for the expenses of the department , but besides fixing the salary of the ...
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... appropriation of water for irrigation contain such clauses as these : " In all that portion of the state of Kansas situated west of the ninety - ninth meridian , all natural waters , whether standing or running , and whether surface or ...
... appropriation of water for irrigation contain such clauses as these : " In all that portion of the state of Kansas situated west of the ninety - ninth meridian , all natural waters , whether standing or running , and whether surface or ...
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... appropriations will be needed : Repairing buildings Horses and machinery Salaries , labor and maintenance Fuel , oil and repairs for plant Totals 1922 . 1923 . 1921 . $ 2,000 2,000 $ 1,000 1,500 4,000 $ 4,500 500 1,500 1,500 $ 6,000 ...
... appropriations will be needed : Repairing buildings Horses and machinery Salaries , labor and maintenance Fuel , oil and repairs for plant Totals 1922 . 1923 . 1921 . $ 2,000 2,000 $ 1,000 1,500 4,000 $ 4,500 500 1,500 1,500 $ 6,000 ...
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... appropriation of 5,877 cubic feet of water per second , " were taking water from the Arkansas river for the irrigation of 500,000 acres of land in that state . Practically the entire flow of the river was diverted in Colorado , and the ...
... appropriation of 5,877 cubic feet of water per second , " were taking water from the Arkansas river for the irrigation of 500,000 acres of land in that state . Practically the entire flow of the river was diverted in Colorado , and the ...
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... appropriations as of 1884 and ac- cept a date as of August 27 , 1910 , and the case was dismissed . Neither the state of Colorado nor any of its officials became parties to this agree- ment . PRESENT STATUS OF THE WATER CONTROVERSY . In ...
... appropriations as of 1884 and ac- cept a date as of August 27 , 1910 , and the case was dismissed . Neither the state of Colorado nor any of its officials became parties to this agree- ment . PRESENT STATUS OF THE WATER CONTROVERSY . In ...
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acre-feet amount of water applying hourly gage Arkansas river Arkansas valley ascertained by applying August automatic graphic water-stage Board of Agriculture channel charge Colorado compact construction cost of pumping crops Daily discharge ascertained DAILY GAGE HEIGHT Discharge measurements diversion downstream engine farm farmer Finney county flood Gage Dis Garden City canal gauge heights to rating highway bridge hourly gage heights installed interest irri irrigation commissioner irrigation plant irrigation pumping plant Irrigation seasons July July 21 June 18 June 30 Kansas ditches Kearny county Knapp legislature mile operation Pawnee river Purgatoire river rating curve Records available register of deeds river at Garden river at Larned river at Syracuse Scott county second-feet Sept Stambaugh station storage stream tion Total township 24 south Unirrigated Verne Wallace county water for irrigation water right water supply water-stage recorder Weskan Wichita county yield
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Page 19 - States and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States.
Page 27 - Within sixty days after the notice is posted, the claimant must commence the excavation or construction of the works in which he intends to divert the water, and must prosecute the work diligently and uninterruptedly to completion, unless temporarily interrupted by snow or rain.
Page 39 - California, but the right to the use of running water flowing in a river or stream or down a canyon or ravine may be acquired by appropriation...
Page 19 - This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States.
Page 25 - If congress consented, then the states were in this respect restored to their original inherent sovereignty; such consent being the sole limitation imposed by the constitution, when given, left the states as they were before . . . whereby their compacts became of binding force, and finally settled the boundary between them: operating with the same effect as a treaty between sovereign powers.
Page 19 - River System not covered by the terms of this compact; (b) over the meaning or performance of any of the terms of this compact; (c) as to the allocation of the burdens incident to the performance of any article of this compact or the delivery of waters as herein provided: (d) as to the construction or operation of works...
Page 25 - Glover, 119 US, 543; Ouachita Packet Co. v. Aiken, 121 US, 444; Indiana v. Kentucky, 136 US, 479; Virginia v. Tennessee, 148 US, 503; Wharton v. Wise, 153 US, 155; St.
Page 41 - A failure to comply with such rules deprives the claimants of the right to the use of the water as against a subsequent claimant who complies therewith.
Page 16 - Kansas as against all the defendants, without prejudice to the right of the plaintiff to institute new proceedings whenever it shall appear that through a material increase in the depletion of the waters of the Arkansas by Colorado, its corporations or citizens, the substantial interests of Kansas are being injured to the extent of destroying the equitable apportionment of benefits between the two states resulting from the flow of the river.
Page 19 - ... equity in the district court of the United States in the district in which any project or part thereof is situated for the purpose of revoking for violation of its terms any permit or license issued...